QIANLONG, CIRCA 1740

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An Imari 'La dame au parasol' oval tureen, cover and stand
Qianlong, circa 1740
Painted in underglaze-blue, iron-red and gilt after a design by Cornelis Pronk, depicting a lady approaching three cormorants on a riverbank, with her parasol-bearer standing behind her, within a narrow band of trailing stems of flowers divided by quatrefoil roundels at the well, within iron-red and gilt rectangular cell-pattern reserved with bird and figural cartouches, superficial inner rim chips, rim restorations
the stand 30 cm. wide (2)

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Lot Essay

This design, by the Dutch draughtsman Cornelis Pronk in 1734, was the first drawing he made for the Dutch East India Company; it was sent via Batavia to both China and Japan and services with this design are known in blue and white and in the famille rose palette, as well as Chinese Imari. See C.J.A. Jörg, Pronk Porcelain, Groningen, 1980, pp.14-28, and pp.61-73, for a full discussion of this design.
For a similarly shaped tureen, see D.F. Lunsing Scheurleer, Chinese Export Porcelain, London, 1974, pp.134, plate 175.

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